The Training Think Tank with Max El-Hag
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Max El-Hag, the mad scientist of the CrossFit world and owner of the Training Think Tank, is most known for the work he’s done helping athletes Noah Ohlsen and Travis Mayer prepare for the CrossFit Games. Max dives into exercise science and kinesiology, proper movement and what it really means to train like a pro. He shares his methods for setting goals, managing expectations and training through adversity. As he puts it, “Everybody loses before they become a champion, so just accept it and keep going.”
Topics:
12:18 - Competition & athletics
10:40 - Back injury
18:00 - What makes a good coach
22:10 - Training like a pro
25:30 - Remote coaching vs. in-person
31:00 - Goal setting for your sport
37:10 - Training Games athletes
50:05 - Training adversity
58:15 - What is a think tank?
Links:
Books:
The Alchemist - Coelho
Aleph - Coelho
The Way of the Superior Man - Deida
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Prospect Games Champ, Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:31.0 | What's up everyone? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week's guest is Max El Hage of Training Think Tank. |
| 0:36.0 | I've admired Max for a long time because he is a, he's just a really deep thinker. |
| 0:43.4 | A lot of people call him the mad scientist. |
| 0:45.9 | And on this show I really got a sense of why. |
| 0:49.7 | He's a really deep thinker when it comes to movement and kinesiology and exercise science, but also treating athletes as a whole human, right? |
| 1:00.0 | And he looks at what their values are what their big picture goals are and I think it makes |
| 1:07.0 | him a lot more effective as a leader and a coach and so I really really respect that and that's why I was looking forward to doing this show in the first place. |
| 1:16.0 | This one's just like chalk full, chalk full of little nuggets. We talk about how he grew up with a dad that was both an Olympic judo |
| 1:28.2 | athlete as well as a PhD and what he learned from such a cool man. We talk about his own personal |
| 1:36.7 | athletic history and how that gives him perspective as a coach. We talk about the |
| 1:41.3 | back injury that really shifted his perspective on life. |
| 1:45.0 | What training really means, what training like a professional really means. |
| 1:50.0 | A lot of people think they're training as hard as games athletes and they are nowhere even close. |
| 1:57.6 | And he talks about what the difference is there. |
| 2:01.0 | We talk about how to set and manage expectations. We're really early in the off season still and so that will be really valuable for anyone who needs help managing their expectations, goal setting, that kind of thing. |
| 2:13.0 | One thing I was really interested in looking forward to talking about was, |
| 2:17.5 | what the hell happened to NOAA last year in the overhead squand, |
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